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Subject: Re: Was the List 5.12 issue ever cleared?

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 16:52:03 03/03/04

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On March 03, 2004 at 14:47:56, Uri Blass wrote:

>On March 03, 2004 at 14:33:50, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On March 03, 2004 at 13:43:49, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>I fact the sole purpose of TSCP was education. "Look, this is the guts of a
>>>chess program in 1000 lines, everyone can do it. Take it and improve it". And it
>>>still is highly succesful as such. I think there is a BIG difference between
>>>basing upon TSCP, which was written in 3 days and hardly more than a framework
>>>to learn from, and basing upon Crafty which is a fully developed state of the
>>>art chess program with > 5 years work in it.
>>
>>E:\tscp>copy *.? blob
>>board.c
>>book.c
>>data.c
>>DATA.H
>>DEFS.H
>>eval.c
>>main.c
>>protos.h
>>search.c
>>tscp.c
>>        1 file(s) copied.
>>
>>E:\tscp>wc blob
>>2314 Lines, 8742 Words, 66517 Characters
>>(tscp.c is a tiny stub I used that looks like this):
>>/*
>>   ** This strange little beastie has only one purpose:
>>   ** To allow the compiler to inline like a madman.
>> */
>>int      king[2];
>>#include "book.c"
>>#include "search.c"
>>#include "board.c"
>>#include "data.c"
>>#include "eval.c"
>>#include "main.c"
>>
>>With 2000 lines of code, that is about 200 hours of effort.  Given a 40 hour
>>work week, that would be 5 weeks to do it.  I expect if you ask him about how
>>much time (including all the revisions, documentation, etc.) it will have been
>>at least that much effort he put into it.  If you can do it in 3 days, then you
>>are a miracle worker.
>
>I expect different answer from tom.
>I remember that he said that it took him only few hours to write the program.
>It is not with all the revisions but I will not be surprised if he did not spent
>total time of less than 3 days about all versions of tscp.
>
>Uri



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